Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Vega
Image View:
Detail showing optical illusion
Creator:
Victor Vasarely (French printmaker, 1906 or 1908-1997)
Location:
repository: Vasarely Múzeum (Budapest, Budapest (special city), Hungary) V.307
Location Note:
Paseo del Prado, 8; Victor Vasarely: The Birth of Op Art (Exhibition, June 7-September 9 2018)
GPS:
40.416111-3.695
Date:
1957-1959 (creation)
Cultural Context:
French
Style Period:
Op art; Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
screen print
Classification:
Prints
Material:
printers ink on paper
Technique:
screen printing
Measurements:
37 cm (height) x 51 cm (width)
Subjects:
nonrepresentational art; geometric; optical illusion; polyhedra; serigraphs
Description:
Between 1951 and 1959 Victor Vasarely continued working with geometric shapes and also began to paint predominantly in black and white. He called this period Kineticism. In Vega (painting, 1957), named after the brightest star in the constellation Lyra, Vasarely paints a huge checkerboard, its regularity disturbed by the bending of the lines that make the squares. He was to return to this idea in the 1970s, as the convex-concave distortions recall the pulsations of stars. The limited edition screen prints were created after the painting. (Source: Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum [website]; https://www.museothy ssen.org/en/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-VASARELY-BOA-V-A 02
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Vega